Meaning

2 senses

  1. The administrative town of a county in Ireland or the United Kingdom.

    the town or city that is the seat of government for a county

  2. A similar type of town in China.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. His parents live in the main county town.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

plural: county towns
Singularcounty town
Pluralcounty towns

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the town or city that is the seat of government for a county:shire town

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcounty seat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
countrymanB2countrysideA2countyB1coupcoupleA2
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